This volume reflects the discussion that emerged around the controversial concepts «communication form», «communicative practice», «medium» and «genre». It provides a comprehensive overview of the his
This book outlines a coherent genre history of the personal weblog from the perspective of media linguistics. An analysis of a diachronic corpus (1997–2012) suggests distinct phases in the history of
The 17 papers fall into the broad categories of language system and language use, text and context, methods of teaching and research, and language attitudes and sociolinguistics. Specific topics inclu
